Another liberal career in Washington has come and gone. Eliot Engel, the Bronx Democrat who hung onto his seat for over three decades, has died at 79. Most Americans outside New York never even heard of him—just another faceless cog in the Democratic machine. But Engel spent 16 straight terms in Congress, pushing left-wing policies, buttering up globalist elites, and doing whatever it took to keep his progressive street cred.
Voters first got stuck with Engel in 1988, when he ousted Mario Biaggi—a 10-term incumbent—in a crowded Democratic primary. Since then, he rode the same tired liberal talking points all the way to a plum committee chairmanship. The Democrats love to talk about democracy, but in Engel’s Bronx, actual choice was a joke. The party bosses always got what they wanted, and the people had to live with the mess: high taxes, shattered neighborhoods, and a government that thought Washington could fix every problem.
Engel’s long career was the perfect example of everything wrong with Washington. He spent years making nice with foreign leaders, worrying more about what the United Nations thought than about what working Americans needed. As chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Engel loved getting involved in endless overseas schemes instead of cleaning up the disaster in his own backyard. Meanwhile, the Bronx crumbled and middle-class families fled.
For liberal Democrats like Engel, being “progressive” means pushing unpopular social experiments, ignoring crime in the streets, and believing D.C. can spend away every crisis. The elites toasted Engel for his cozy relationships with foreign diplomats and his wild spending habits, while everyday Americans got nothing but rising bills and empty promises.
Now another liberal champion is gone, but those broken policies are alive and well in the Democrat-run cities across America. Maybe it’s time for the voters to realize that decades of so-called “public service” from left-wing politicians have bought them nothing but ruin. The question liberals never answer: How much more of their “progress” can this country really afford?
Source: Just The News
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